Raising Awareness
Improving inclusivity and equality within theatre, for the benefit of neurologically diverse, and/or physically disadvantaged minority groups, by educating neurologically typical member of society about the large scope of hidden disabilities and minority groups.
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ACT RIGHT disclaimer: At this stage in thoughtful theatre's development we focus our education on 4 hidden disabilities. This is just a small handful of the hidden disabilities we want to accommodate so follow our journey as we continue to expand. The disabilities you will read about for now are Autism, Deaf/Deafened/Hard of hearing, Blind/Visually Impaired and Anxiety Disorder
Hidden Disability Fact Sheets
Out of 100 people asked in survey*, 97% know someone with a disability. Thats 97% of people who know someone this movement would benefit.
*Survey carried out with a wide target audience.
200 babies are born, per week in the UK, with a learning disability.
Existing Services and Strategies
Captioning, Audio Description, Touch Tours, Relaxed Performances and the Sunflower Lanyard scheme



Key Facts
Facts discovered from a 100 person survey
12% of people don't know the difference between a learning disability and a learning difficulty.
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25% of people thought there is double the number of people in the UK with a learning disability then there actually are.
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Over half of people were happy to accept there is no official record of how many people in the world have disabling hearing loss, and only 17% guessed 466 million correctly.
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37% people thought that 1 in 30, in the UK have Autism as opposed to the correct statistic, 1 in 10.
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Over half of people guessed correctly that there are 1.2 million wheelchair users in the UK, but, over a quarter guessed only 220,000.
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